On 11/26/22 17:21, Leif H Silli wrote:
When I work with XMLmind XML editor, I almost always work with compound
documents with Xinclude includes.
The structur of our documents tend to look like this:
Book-document (which embeds)
Chapter 1-document (which embeds)
Section 1 of Chapter 1-document
Section 2 of Chapter 1-document
Chapter 2-document (which embeds)
Section 1 of Chapter 2-document
Section 2 of Chapter 2-document
[ … etc …]
Example issue description:
0) I open the Book-document and find something to edit in Section 2 of
Chapter 1
1) XXE allows me to Ctrl-Click that section, so that I get a Ctrl-Click
menu from where I can selct the submenu “Edit Referenced Document” .
2) The very text of the above Ctrl-Click menu implies that when the
referenced document gets opened, I shall immediate be able to edit
Section 2 of Chapter 1-document.
** (Note: One may say that there are actually - in this case - two
referenced documents: The Chapter 1-document as well as the Section 2 of
Chapter 1-document. However, since the mouse pointer actually points to
a par of the Section 2 of Chapter 1-document, it seems naturally to
think that that is the document that is referenced) **
3) But instead, what happens is that the parent document – the Chapter
1-document – gets opened.
4) This means that in order to edit the Section 2 of Chapter 1-document,
I must now repeat step «1)» on the Chapter 1-document: I must point to
the Section 1 of Chapter 1-document and select “Edit referenced document”.
** (NOTE: If I had a subsection document, I would have had to
repeated step 1) yet another time.) **
Conclusion:
I find the current two-steps solution behavior tedious and confusing.
For instance, the book I work on right now, have near 20 chapters, of
which almost every chapter has several sections. Each time I want to
edit such a section, I must perform the two steps described above.
Proposal:
I suggest instead a one-step solution: when one points to a part that is
embedded in another document that is also embedded, then it is the
innermost embedded document - the exact part that you are pointing to –
that should become opened.
We 100% agree that implementing your RFE would improve XXE but
unfortunately this is not easy to achieve.
Making "Edit Referenced Document" directly open, say, section 2 of
chapter 2 (rather than chapter 2, which is the current behavior) would
be quite easy to implement.
But "Edit Referenced Document" does not just open the included document.
It also "transfers" what's selected in the including document to the
included document and then scrolls the included document to let you see
this selection.
For example, let's say you select text "This is explained below." in the
book and this sentence is found in section 2 itself included in chapter 2.
"Edit Referenced Document" currently opens chapter 2 and selects/scrolls
text "This is explained below." in the chapter.
We took a long look at the code and it's technically quite difficult to
directly open section 2 instead and select/scroll text "This is
explained below." in the section.
Moreover implementing your RFE also requires changing the "Edit
Referencing Document" command accordingly, with similar technical
difficulties. See
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/referenceMenu.html#editIncludingAction
Therefore, sorry, but we'll not implement the useful behavior you have
suggested.
(May be using the keyboard shortcut Cmd+Shift-E twice in a row rather
than selecting the "Edit Referenced Document" entry of the contextual
menu would make it easier opening the section of the book.)
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